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My wife (Amy) and I (Kyle), are so excited to announce the opening of our online store, Cask Jewelry.

We live in the Napa Valley, and live the wine country lifestyle. We don’t own a winery, but we certainly know enough people that do, and have met many people in the wine industry in the Napa Valley.

After a lot of work, our idea of creating jewelry from wine barrels has finally come to fruition. We are “The original wine barrel jeweler”, offering a selection of jewelry designs all incorporating wood from real previously used wine barrels.

The first wine barrels we tried to use were sourced locally from a “guy” we know and our rings are handcrafted (except for the steps when we need machines).

The whole thing has been a learning experience. Every step of the way we have met challenges, some that experts told us they didn’t know how to solve, but we stuck with it and finally have a consistent way to produce our wine barrel jewelry.

Each piece of wood is hand selected to create a piece of jewelry that showcases the color and characteristics of the wine barrel it came from. Because of this, there is some variations in the jewelry, and therefore, each piece will be slightly different than the ones pictured.

Men's and Women's Wine Barrel Rings

We created a classic rounded men’s and women’s ring that has a slight domed shape to the outer surface of the ring. The difference between the men’s wine barrel ring and the women’s wine barrel ring is the thickness of the wood showing.

The men’s ring has an 8mm band of wood, while the women’s has a 6mm band of wood. Really they can be interchanged and a man or a woman could wear either one. We just chose to initially stock smaller ring sizes in the 6mm ring and larger sizes in the 8mm ring.

Signature Wine Barrel Rings

We also wanted a ring that showcased more of the wine barrel wood, so we created our signature wine barrel ring which has a wide flat top. This ring shows more of the grain from the wine barrel and really draws attention to how unique it really is.